Virago promotes Doyle

Virago has promoted Ursula Doyle to associate publisher, after three years as editorial director at the female-only imprint.

Publisher Lennie Goodings said: "Ursula's experience, vision and wonderful editorial eye have brought us, since she came to Virago at the end of 2008, a wide range of books from The Paris Wife to Half the Sky to Four Meals for Fourpence. We are very pleased to recognise this with a hugely well-deserved promotion."

Doyle said: "Like so many people, I grew up with Virago Modern Classics, (I actually wrote a dissertation on Antonia White when I was at college); Virago was an important part of my literary and feminist education. It's a privilege to be part of shaping the future of the list, and I am very grateful to Lennie and to Little, Brown for giving me such a great opportunity."

Doyle joined Virago in November 2008, following 12 years as editorial director at Picador. She started her career at Granta in 1989, and became deputy editor of the magazine in 1994.